1. Course description: The purpose of this course is to provide students fundamental knowledge of essential kinetics of various material systems. The subjects covered are (1) Diffusion; (2) Chemical reactions; (3) Phase transformations.
2. Reference Book:
(1) R. W. Balluffi, "Kinetics of Materials", Wiley 2005
(2) O. Levenspiel, “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
(3) D. A. Porter,“Phase Transformations in metals and alloys”, 2nd Ed., Chapman & Hall, 1992.
3. Teaching methods:
Lecture
4. Outlines:
(1) Introduction
-Thermodynamics vs. kinetics
(2) Diffusion
- Diffusion Flux and Driving forces
- Diffusion equations and solutions
- Interdiffusion and Kirkendall effect
- Atomic diffusion mechanisms
- Diffusion along crystal imperfections
(3) Chemical reactions
- Homogeneous chemical reactions
- Hetergeneous chemical reactions
(4) Phase transformations
- Spinodal and order-disorder transformation
- Nucleation and growth Growth
- Solidification and precipitation
5. Garde: Quiz (40%), Midterm (30%), Final (30%)
6. Lecture notes download: http://www.mse.nthu.edu.tw/~cnliao/MS5042.html